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Saturday, May 2, 2015

Ourcultural institutions supported by
corporate entities and the interlocking corporate industrial complexes
(medical, weight loss, fashion, entertainment, pharmaceutical, food
industry, health/wellness,
advertising/marketing, chemical) exploit our assumptions and mores about
the fat,
the thin and the fit. Their brainwashing concepts redirect us from what
we should focus on: healing and nurturing our inner selves. The
complexes make money from instigating insecurities about our having a
completely inadequate outer
appearance. The more guilty we feel that we cannot measure up to the
images media presents, the more we succumb. Often, we live with
discomfort and discomfit others. None of us is exempt from the scourge
of the "importance" of outer
appearance. The industrial complexes create and feed
upon our appearance failures. They promote a homogenization of our
looks. They blind us to our immutable soul beauty. They lionize mortal
flesh. In their worship of mammon they lure us toward an emotional
matrix of images in which we become slaves of our own imagination about
how we must look and feel.

THE MISERABLE FACTOR

Corporations'
prodigious investment to capture the minds, souls and bodies of the
American people in a consumer matrix in order to make trillions of
dollars has been successful. The residual has been that Americans suffer
tremendously because they have not focused their attention on inner
soul development. A side effect of becoming embedded in materialism to
the exclusion of the spiritual has, to one degree or another, resulted
in misery. To cope folks spend their lives attempting to throw off
throbbing psychic aches with medications for various mental disorders.
Or they engage and become active in a continuum of escapist activities
involving the sports and entertainment industries. Those who are nearest
to confronting intense pain self medicate through alcohol or drugs and
often totter on the brink of revelation, destruction or oblivion. The
more educated and enlightened are less chained to corporate group think.
Some who are journalists, writers, artists, musicians, activists
intellectually threaten the complexes with their movement to get "off
the grid" of corporate social/cultural control. Others succumb. The flexible, untangled
consciousness of the critically thoughtful person is more open to alternate
mores and folkways. Their path is less culturally dependent.

This is mostly true on an acute level for women. However, even though one may
be a genius, women are still entranced by iconic standards of beauty and
youth because the images supporting this are ubiquitous as they filter into the arts and media images. Women continually confront an image bondage about which they may be completely unconscious.

How Does Bad Ass Translate to Inner Wellness?

Despite class, education and
intelligence, women are ruled by their looks and the appearance of other
women. Whenever females look in the mirror, they are
discontent. When they see themselves in photographs, unless they have been handled by make-up artists and hairstylists beforehand, it is even worse. In both instances they often find fault with how they look. "Master-race" images chain mail their feelings about
themselves. Mirrors reflect their thoughts back, cautioning against
weight gain, wrinkling, puffy-faced sleeplessness, aging, flabbiness,
sun damage, double-chins, haggardness and hollow cheeks, in an ever
increasing list of flaws. Rarely does their appearance satisfy or bring
contentment, though for some, it is an occasion to make fun of themselves and others.

But ultimately, vanity and a sense of attractiveness are gaping holes that
must be filled by humor, resignation or cosmetics, enhancers, fillers and/or surgeries to grab
and maintain youth and beauty.Self-esteem about appearance is the emotional life-blood of
women. In the more enlightened ones, spiritual energy transfusions bring
health which supplants and drains the virus that, like formaldehyde,
cretinizes and atrophies the soul and psyche. In those captivated by the
culture and their own deceptive flesh, old age, weight gain and
wrinkles are the devil.
Until
one comes to the end of oneself psychically in these matters of
appearance, competition rages between and among women. If the issue is
weight, it becomes a sliding scale of who is the superior thinnest and
inferior fattest in a community of friends or a collegial circle. For
fit athletes, the balance tips to favor the most fit and disfavor the
most soft fleshed and least able. For the beauteous, celebrity icons are
lifted up as examples. Celebrities' bad plastic surgeries become the
prod to quell the desire to mutilate oneself into youthfulness. But the
incredibly insecure and soul damaged jump and take the consequences sometimes becoming
addicted to youth enhancing treatments and surgeries. The sad fact is
that the apex of existence should be seeking a
lifestyle of health and complete inner and outer wellness. However
"spiritual wellness and physical wholeness" seem to be the Medusa in the
room that no one
acknowledges.

The
fit, the thin and the fat need to exchange places in an imaginary
exercise. They need to walk in each others' shoes. The intolerant,
arrogant and self-hating (the fat, the thin, the fit), need to recognize that
they have a soul. They need to confront the pain of their own inner
misery and darkness. They must be free to forgive their need to hate
themselves and their looks by despising and demeaning others or by changing their outer appearance to the point of obsession. We need to grow from
within before we reconcile our outward appearance. We need to recognize
we are much more than our bodies. Only then can we begin to confront and
overthrow the industrial complexes that would keep us enslaved to their
profit making, lying, predatory enterprises. And then our thinness and wellness will empower and raise us to a Power of Oneness.